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[roxy]

, and it felt just the way I knew it would--like I was losing a very dear friend. It was a long read, mostly because I drew it out as long as I could. It's not often that you want to immerse yourself in a book like that, but this story was special. It was everything I love about a very good story--a journey to some place else, meeting wonderful people and watching their lives unfold. I'm sure some folks probably thought it didn't end the way it should have but that's looking at it through our eye and our ideas of what makes an ending happy, but I think for John and Tris, that was probably the happiest ending possible.

When I have my magic brick back, I'd love to talk to folks who've read the story, if anyone would still be interested. :)

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[rednihilist.livejournal.com]

I've heard kind of how it ends, and that plays a big part in why I haven't got to it yet. :/ I know I'll be the better for having read it, as I always am after the really good ones that just squeeze the hell out of my emotions, but it's. . .

I really like my happy endings. I'd much rather have an open one, where I can at least pretend they lived happily ever after (together) to the end of their days, than one that follows them to their (respective) ends. Does that make sense?

I think this outlook reflects a great deal in what I write, and how I write. I mean, I've got it in my head (and have had ever since '08 when I started), and I know someday I'm going to have to make the decision on whether or not to write a Colin Luthor who's outlived his family. That's the painful truth for any Clex or Clois, in my mind. Maybe not sooner, but later. . . they're all going to die, and Clark is. . . not. :/

Sorry to ramble, but a bittersweet ending? Honey, you're the only one who can get me to read those right away (well, you and your damned niece, and that apple didn't far fall from the adjacent tree), so consider yourself warned. I hate bittersweet, but only because it makes it hurt so good. I've developed into a real crier these days, too, and so that's part of it also. I actually cried at a commercial the other day, and The Simpsons makes me cry every once in awhile. So. If it's even remotely sad or emotional, I'm gonna be a wreck by the time it's finished.

Ahem. What was I saying? *hugs*

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Oh well, old age has turned me into a horrible crier, and god knows I cried at the end of this--for just the reason you have about Colin. Some day, we're all going to be in that position, of either losing the one we love, or having to learn how to live without them.

I certainly see the appeal of having an open ending that we can put our imagination to, but I'm more partial to an actual end. I want to know what the writer is thinking, and how they feel it's ended.

I hope you do read it because you especially will enjoy how completely she has control over the craft of writing. Her style is different than yours but you both have this--grasp of writing, this sureness that comes through whatever you're doing.

Try it, really--it's not the kind of sadness that hits you out of left field, she warns you way ahead of time that this is probably where it's headed. I won;t lie to yo, though--it's hard. :)